Death Stranding: Kojima reveals a new art and the initial name of the game

Written by: Chris Watson

January 05, 2020

Updated on January 05, 2020

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Hideo Kojima publishes on Twitter one of the first conceptual arts of Death Stranding, in addition to confessing what the name was originally intended.

There is no doubt that Death Stranding has been one of the games that has been most talked about at the end of 2019, and also in what we have been in 2020, and that is that Hideo Kojima is fond of revealing some small details of his social networks development. Although the creative Japanese is already engaged in his next game, he still has time to discover the conceptual arts of the beginnings of the process of creating Death Stranding … and something else.

In this new conceptual art by Yoji Shinkawa – also an artist of Metal Gear – we can glimpse what are sketches of the soldiers who accompany Cliff, the character Mads Mikkelsen plays. "I found on my iPhone this sketch by the Art Director of Kojima Productions Yoji Shinkawa from the early days of the conceptual period of Death Stranding," Kojima said on Twitter. "Then there was no written script, so I just explained in word what the Warriors were. We called it Dead Stranding, it had this name."

Found in my iPhone, the sketch by Yoji Shinkawa from early days of DS concept period. At that time there was no written script so I just verbally explained what the warriors space is like to him. We used to call it DEAD STRANDING as another name. pic.twitter.com/W2dxo4T4pT

– HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) January 5, 2020

A curious initiative by Kojima, not only to reveal this art but also the original name of Death Stranding, but surprisingly uncommon among all studios. However, it is the creator of Metal Gear an amateur person to share many details of all his games.

Kojima and his taste for cinema

In another news order related to Kojima, he recently revealed his five favorite movies of 2019, placing the Korean Parasite as the first of them all. In addition, he also confessed that for the development of P.T. He watched several horror movies, rumored also that his next game could be a survival horror as it was going to be the canceled Silent Hills.